In the statement the delegates list the main points of the Alabama Platform, which had been rejected by the convention, and then formally withdraw from the gathering: "The points of difference between the Northern and Southern Democracy are: 1st....

Address delivered at the Government Street Church, Mobile, Thursday morning, Jan. 28, 1847, over the remains of Zebulon Montgomery Pike Inge, who fell gallantly fighting May 9, 1846, at the head of his platoon of the 2d U.S. Dragoons, in the...